Ciao Kirk,
and welcome to community forum.
Yes thinBasic is still maintained, there is a little gab in releasing new versions because I'm finishing a big new release full of new functionalities.
I added too much new options and I went long in releasing them all. I will never do such big changes all together, too complex.
I'm sorry but COM module has been actually deprecated even if still distributed: https://www.thinbasic.com/public/pro...x.html?com.htm
In future thinBasic versions iDispatch functionality will substitute it.
In any case "ServerName" or "ClassName" or "progId" is the string that identify an automation object present in your computer.
Giving that ProgramId (Program Identifier) to COM_CreateObject should be able to create an instance of that object and work with it,
There are some applications around you can use to see what automation objects are present in your computer, attached the one I use created by José Rocha: https://forum.powerbasic.com/forum/j...ypelib-browser
I found some reference quite useful:
- http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/a...htm#AUTOMATION
- https://www.codeproject.com/Articles...COM-in-plain-C
- http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009899899/
Let me know.
Ciao
Eros
Reply With Quote